Church Antique Show Chairmen Named
The 9th Annual Antiques Show and Sale by the Second Congregational Church runs Oct 12 13 14 from 10 am to 9 pm daily. Chairman Mrs Robert J LaPorte with committees including dealers led by Mrs Fred Tifft and others. prominent dealers from the northeast will display early American furniture fine art glass porcelains and more. Local exhibitors include Fannie Collins Brewster Antiques Colonial Antiques Mary F O Neil Clarence Mathers and High Meadow Farm Antiques.
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Second Congregational Church
Robert J. LaPorte
H. James Wallace
Fred Tifft
Eugene Clark
Benjamin Vail
Dean Hanson
Roderick Hum
Phreys
Richard Davis
Elizabeth Thomas
Leroy Marsden
J. Philip Hall
Josiah Fuller
Peter Donavan
Morton Grant
Helen Thomas
Hugh Nash
Carl Williams
Northeast
Ohio
Fannie Collins
Pownal Center
Brewster Antiques
Manchester Center
Colonial Antiques
Dorset
Mary F. O'Neil
East Dorset
Clarence Mathers
Hoosick Falls
High Meadow Farm
Bennington
Bennington County Trails Quota in Cancer Society Drive
County Bennington reports 9957.03 of a 10225 goal in the Vermont American Cancer Society Crusade. County chairman Patrick Gordon says late gifts may meet the target while noting southern shir e contributions exceed last year by 700. State quota stands at 110000. last year’s best was 115000.
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Bennington County
Vermont
American Cancer Society
Patrick Gordon
Gordon
South Shire
Hoff Replies To Alden Charge In Vermont Vietnam Row
Gov. Philip Hoff refutes Rep. John Alden’s charge that he blocked a 1967 Vietnam resolution. Hoff says timing and workload issues made the measure misplaced and reiterates support for the president’s policy. He also discusses a speeding chase by his state trooper chauffeur and notes AEC inaction on Connecticut River thermal pollution.
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Vietnam
Alden
Hoff
Vermont
Waterbury
Michael Vinton
Richard Abare
Essex Junction
Washington District Court
Barre
George Aiken
Atomic Energy Comemission
AEC
Connecticut
Aiken
Senate Committee On Atomic Energy
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp
Vernon
Raynolds Charges Gibboney Out of Touch With Vermont Schools
In Montpelier Vermont Education Board Chairman Harold Raynolds says former Education Commissioner Richard A. Gibboney was ousted for failing to address local problems. Raynolds, at a press conference, rejected the philosophy difference claim and cited Gibboney’s focus on paperwork, noting classrooms as action centers.
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Gibboney
Montpelier
Raynolds
Vermont
Pennsylvania
Addison County
Grand
Kemmerer Receives High Mason Honor
Kemmerer of Bennington has been named Knight of the York Cross of Honour the highest York Rite honor. The designation places him among about 400 of over 4 million Freemasons in North America and the Philippines this year. He held multiple high offices in Masonic bodies from 1959 to 1965 and received a certificate of membership after election confirmed in July.
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Hastings-On-Hudson
N.Y
Lorenzo B. Kemmerer
Short St
Bennington
York
Kemmerer
Mt. Anthony Lodge of Masons
Temple Chapter
Royal Arch Masons
North America
Philippines
Deaf-Blind Children Expected Rise Warns Gardner
Health Secretary John W. Gardner told a House subcommittee that the nation should prepare for a sharp increase in school-age deaf blind children in the near future due to rubella epidemics from 1963 to 1965. He noted unborn children of pregnant women who contract the disease are often affected by deafness and blindness.
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Washington
UPI
John W.W. Gardner
Gardners
House
Lincoln-Dickey Project Faces New Attack
Washington with UPI reports the $218 million Dickey Lincoln hydroelectric project on Maine's upper St. John River survived a House Appropriations Committee clash. Rep. Hathaway of Maine warned of a likely renewed floor battle as Rep. Giaimo’s amendment to strip this year’s funds failed 24-20. He accused private power interests of pressuring lawmakers and predicted a close but favorable final vote.
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Washington
UPI
Dickey Lincoln
Maine
St. John
House
Appropriations Committee
William D. Hathaway
Robert N. Giaimo
D . Conn
Giaimo
Dickey - Lincoln
New England
Senate
Hathaway
Connecticut
Democrat
Dickey
Bennington Rural Fire Dept Auxiliary sets parade plans
At the regular meeting at Hedges Lake the group announced uniforms will be ready for the Bennington Battle Day parade on August 13. They will wear patches two fingers from the shoulder seam. A fire prevention float features a doll house stored at Willow Road station a week before the parade. An Aug 8 special meeting starts work on the float and a buffet for Fort Devens band is planned for Aug 13 at 11 a.m. Members to bring assigned food, report to Willow Road by 8:30 a.m. A picnic is planned for Aug 21 at Mrs. Anna Krawczyk’s home. Officers’ reports were read and accepted. Swimming and boating were enjoyed. Lillian Rice received the sunshine gift.
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Bennington
Willow Road
Fort Devens
Anna Krawczyk
Lillian Rice
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Cancer Fund
van Santvoord
Bowdoin Fathers
Richard N. van Santvoord
Hopkins, Minn
Blake School
Bowdoin Fathers Association
Richard van Santvoord
Shadowbrook Road
Mary E. van Santvoord
John St
Hopkins
Z, van Santvoord
Brunswick, Maine
Liberal Arts College
Young van Santvoord
Blake
Historical Society of the
School Service Commission
Glee Club
Francis E. Morrissey
Edward H. Cumpston
Old Bennington
Wilbur C. Rice
John H. Hamlin
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Gillmore
Metropolitan
Vernon A. Gage
Union St
Metropolitan Life
New York, N. Y
Canada Dry Distilling CO
Nicholasville, KY
of New
Fienberg
Main ST
Lincoln-Dickey Project
Noveck-Shultz, Inc
New Plymouth Valiants
Belvederes
Barracudas
Plymouth
Fury Ili
Chrysler
CIDAR
PAR
Chrysler Motors Corporation
Paulin’s
Shaftsbury
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